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...this case it was not nearly so precise as the prosecution claimed. One expert calculated that there was a 1 in 78 chance that the blood on Castro's watch was not from the victim. That may be a small chance, but to the defense it constituted a distinct shadow of a doubt...
...feel as if I've graduated from the college of Cliff- Hanger U. I ought to have paid tuition." Spielberg's camera style neither misses a trick nor reveals how it's done. See how he cues the change of a Zeppelin's course by the shadow scampering across a cocktail glass; watch a motif of cigarette lighters carry complicity from one character to another. Like a fine old haunted castle, his film has secret staircases of suspense, revolving panels of plot...
...Mosbacher. "Take it, honey," barked Lear. "They call me 'eccentric.' " Under the gleam of crystal refracted by lemony candlelight, Lear presided over dinner for twelve served by a squadron of waiters. Playing impresario, she deftly focused scattershot conversations into one group topic, spawning debates over the reasons matte eye-shadow sales are soaring (one theory: softens the wrinkles) and whether there will be a woman President -- "Not in my lifetime," insists Lear. Quick and sharp- witted, she suffers fools not at all and snubs sycophants with an icy glance. But when she is surrounded by sympathetic friends, her conversation expands...
...number of Egyptians increases, people have spilled out of the cities in search of housing. The Giza Plateau, once far from urban sprawl, now lies almost in the shadow of modern apartment buildings. Nearby factories and old vehicles spew forth noxious clouds of particulate-laden exhaust, which becomes corrosive when dissolved by rain. Vibrations from traffic produce cracks in the monuments. More serious still is the damage caused by water. An estimated 80% of Cairo's incoming water supply escapes from leaking pipes into the ground. And the aging sewerage system, built 75 years ago to serve a population...
...strikes Larkin's most distinctive note. He is not a poet to seek out for soothing assurances. Mortality haunted him. At age 24 he writes, "Death is a cloud alone in the sky with the sun./ Our hearts, turning like fish in the green wave,/ Grow quiet in its shadow." Some 31 years later, this confession...